Careers: Is ‘big change’ possible? Lucy Kellaway is one of my favourite journalists. Or should I say, ‘was’. See Kellaway’s articles vanished from the Financial Times around 18 months ago. In an online article I stumbled across last week I discovered Kellaway, who was 30 years in journalism, left her post with the FT. Kellaway […]
Career Progression: Moving from Pain to Gain. I believe it’s a rare journey in life where we get to the end point without some pain along the way. To be honest, I don’t know would I want it any other way. One of my favourite minds on living life well, Victor Frankl, emphasised how suffering […]
This is classic summer. Sun out, Wimbledon on. I’ve been playing my own version of Wimbledon lately. Tennis tournaments across Dublin that is. The standard I play at is a mere fraction on show currently at SW19. That being said, the tournaments have made me appreciate the ‘win or lose’, ‘live or die’ environment that […]
I spent four years working in a front office. Eight years in a back office. It gave me a great perspective on the two sides of the corporate coin. The front office makes things happen. It makes the money. It delivers the work. The front office is the interface with the world. The back office […]
Are you happy with where you work, but less happy with your role? Well then, read on! Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane Dutton, researchers of work fulfilment, have been central to creating a concept called ‘job crafting’. ‘Job crafting’ is the process of making physical and mindset changes to improve how you think and feel about […]
Last week I outlined, in a post celebrating the wonder of the human spirit, that I’d recently completed my last set of exams in a Higher Diploma in Psychology. As part of that, I’ve examined a lot of the research on work happiness and meaning. Here are three key work facts emerging from the research: […]
Network provider Three are running a brilliant ad currently. The ad shows a middle-aged son and his elderly father completing a marathon. That moment of celebration between the two at the finish line sums up everything that is wonderful about the human spirit. The Wonder of the Human Spirit: The human spirit is fascinating. Yet, […]
Do you ever wonder what your ideal career path looks like? There’s clues to the answer in your own home. The home is made by parents, the place where they provide for their kids. The goal of parents is to do everything to give their kids the best possible upbringing. My folks worked incredibly hard […]
You may at this stage be reaching saturation point on advice for shaping your 2018. With that in mind, this is not a 30-day programme. It’s not twelve sequential steps, combined with an algebraic formula to achieve a year of eternal happiness (with hindsight, Inspo’s post last week fell a little into this category, apologies). […]
2018 has the potential to be a great year. Two statements must be addressed to allow 2018 to be as great as possible. They are statements that Inspo encountered frequently in 2017. “I’d love to do something different. But I’m too long doing what I’m doing”. “Work has me exhausted and my sense of work/life […]